מָכַר

ma.kharto sellHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb80 occurrences20 books74 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
Traditional renderings: × at all, sell (away, -er, self).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מָכַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

80 total
  1. Nehemiah 5:8הַנִּמְכָּרִ֤ים · who were sold; תִּמְכְּר֥וּ · are selling; וְנִמְכְּרוּ־ · that they may be sold back
    …and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
  2. Nehemiah 10:31לִמְכּ֔וֹר · to sell
    When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt.
  3. Nehemiah 13:15מִכְרָ֥ם · against selling
    In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
  4. Nehemiah 13:16וּמֹכְרִ֧ים · and selling them
    Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.
  5. Nehemiah 13:20וּמֹכְרֵ֧י · and those who sell
    Once or twice, the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,
  6. Esther 7:4נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ · have been sold out; נִמְכַּ֙רְנוּ֙ · we had merely been sold
    For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
  7. Psalm 44:12תִּמְכֹּֽר־ · You sell
    You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
  8. Psalm 105:17נִמְכַּ֥ר · sold
    He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.
  9. Proverbs 23:23תִּמְכֹּ֑ר · sell it
    Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
  10. Proverbs 31:24וַתִּמְכֹּ֑ר · and sells [them]
    She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.
  11. Isaiah 24:2כַּמּוֹכֵ֔ר · and seller
    …people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
  12. Isaiah 50:1מָכַ֥רְתִּי · did I sell you; נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֔ם · you were sold
    This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
  13. Isaiah 52:3נִמְכַּרְתֶּ֑ם · You were sold
    For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
  14. Jeremiah 34:14יִמָּכֵ֣ר · has sold himself
    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
  15. Ezekiel 7:12וְהַמּוֹכֵ֖ר · and the seller
    The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.
  16. Ezekiel 7:13הַמּוֹכֵ֗ר · The seller
    The seller will surely not recover what he sold while both remain alive. For the vision concerning the whole multitude will not be revoked, and because of their iniquity, not one of them will preserve his life.
  17. Ezekiel 30:12וּמָכַרְתִּ֥י · and sell
    I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  18. Ezekiel 48:14יִמְכְּר֣וּ · sell
    They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.
  19. Joel 3:3מָכְר֥וּ · and sold
    They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
  20. Joel 3:6מְכַרְתֶּ֖ם · You sold
    You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
  21. Joel 3:7מְכַרְתֶּ֥ם · you sold
    Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
  22. Joel 3:8וּמָכַרְתִּ֞י · I will sell; וּמְכָר֥וּם · and they will sell them
    I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
  23. Amos 2:6מִכְרָ֤ם · they sell
    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
  24. Nahum 3:4הַמֹּכֶ֤רֶת · who betrays
    …because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
  25. Zechariah 11:5וּמֹכְרֵיהֶ֣ן · Those who sell them
    …whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.